Festival 2026

Good Grief Cafe

Organised by North Berwick Coastal Community Connections

Thursday 5 November, 7-9:30pm

St Columba’s Cafe, Westgate, North Berwick

This activity is open to the public. No need to book.

Absent Friends Week is a national festival of storytelling and remembrance - a space to remember those who are no longer with us and share the stories that keep them present in our lives. This year, Coastal Community Connections explores Legacy Burdens – the expectations, beliefs and behaviours around grief that we inherit from our families, communities and wider culture. These can shape how we think grief should look, what we feel able to express and what we learn to keep hidden. 

This group meets regularly, everyone welcome. Make connections, engage, chat and have a coffee... This is not a therapy-based group but a peer-led conversation supported by the Community Connections Team.